Lithuania Says Belarus Is Using Illegal Immigrants as a Weapon

Lithuania Says Belarus Is Using Illegal Immigrants as a Weapon
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis looks on during a joint news conference with his German counterpart Heiko Maas, in Berlin on March 17, 2021. Hannibal Hanschke/Pool/Reuters
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BRUSSELS—The European Union should consider imposing more sanctions on Belarus because Minsk is flying in immigrants from abroad to send them illegally into the bloc, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Monday.

His government accuses Belarusian authorities of sending hundreds of mainly Iraqi illegal immigrants across the border into Lithuania, an EU member state.